Making Sense of Use Cases

An in-depth look at use cases, actors, and use case modelingCome join us as we explore the world of use cases and use case modeling. We'll take a deep dive into this part of the UML, looking at actors, use cases, use case diagrams, flows of events, and activity diagrams. With these powerful tools at your disposal, you'll be able to create requirements artifacts that are invaluable to your team.

In this course, you’ll learn:

What a use case is, and how to effectively use them in a projectWhat an actor is, and how they can help us understand our users' perspectivesHow to find use cases and actors in your projectHow to build an effective use case diagramHow to model reusable logic with Includes and Extends relationshipsHow to model actor inheritance using Generalization relationshipsWhat not to do when defining or modeling use cases and actorsHow to write a use case specification, with a description, preconditions, basic and alternate flows of events, and post-conditionsHow to build an activity diagram to give you a picture of the flowHow use cases fit into the SDLCWhat to do with non-functional requirements

And through the whole class, we’ll use real world examples and exercises to help reinforce the ideas and give you the chance to practice. In this short course, you’ll get the skills you need to start applying use cases to your projects right away.